The Fox Creek/Valleyview Le Mans. I remember it with fondness now, but I can say with confidence that the stains on the driver’s seat of that company truck will never come out.
Fox creek is a wonderful place to drive in a white out compared to 63 before they twinned it. Twice i was stopped on 63 because of accidents in winter driving and some ass decided to go around all the stopped vehicles in the breakdown lane. Both times the idiot ended up in the ditch and both idiots had newfoundland flags on their bumpers……
Drove home from a school concert during a spring blizzard. Snow coming down heavily enough it was like a white sheet was laying across the windshield. Having driven that stretch of road twice a day for four years I was able to make it home. This was in south central Nebraska.
Did this MANY times in North Dakota, driving to missile sites and then back to Base. See, we had to get there no matter what and get the missile back in the green (operational), so rain/sleet/snow was no excuse. Once you were successful, they didn’t care how long it took for you to get back.
No roadside reflectors, no signs, NOTHING. More than a few times somebody had to literally WALK in front of the truck to keep it out of the ditch. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t. Spent a couple of days in the cab of a Dodge Power Wagon waiting for the storm to pass then calling on the radio to help dig us out. Plenty of water, some survival rats. Couldn’t run the truck out of gas, so no warmth. We had Survival Gear and appropriate training. Nobody died, but you can just imagine the Misery Index !!
Gosh, does this bring back memories. All bad.
Been there; done that in, of all places, South Central Kansas, coming home from work at one a.m. The white-knuckle 50-mile drive home on those windy-ass Flint Hills roads with a half-inch of ice under all that snow was something I don’t miss at all.
Ahhhhhhhhh.
The Fox Creek/Valleyview Le Mans. I remember it with fondness now, but I can say with confidence that the stains on the driver’s seat of that company truck will never come out.
Fox creek is a wonderful place to drive in a white out compared to 63 before they twinned it. Twice i was stopped on 63 because of accidents in winter driving and some ass decided to go around all the stopped vehicles in the breakdown lane. Both times the idiot ended up in the ditch and both idiots had newfoundland flags on their bumpers……
Drove home from a school concert during a spring blizzard. Snow coming down heavily enough it was like a white sheet was laying across the windshield. Having driven that stretch of road twice a day for four years I was able to make it home. This was in south central Nebraska.
Did this MANY times in North Dakota, driving to missile sites and then back to Base. See, we had to get there no matter what and get the missile back in the green (operational), so rain/sleet/snow was no excuse. Once you were successful, they didn’t care how long it took for you to get back.
No roadside reflectors, no signs, NOTHING. More than a few times somebody had to literally WALK in front of the truck to keep it out of the ditch. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t. Spent a couple of days in the cab of a Dodge Power Wagon waiting for the storm to pass then calling on the radio to help dig us out. Plenty of water, some survival rats. Couldn’t run the truck out of gas, so no warmth. We had Survival Gear and appropriate training. Nobody died, but you can just imagine the Misery Index !!
Gosh, does this bring back memories. All bad.
Been there; done that in, of all places, South Central Kansas, coming home from work at one a.m. The white-knuckle 50-mile drive home on those windy-ass Flint Hills roads with a half-inch of ice under all that snow was something I don’t miss at all.